Author: Kalev Leetaru
GKG Person Name Histogram 2015-2019
Among the myriad metadata fields computed by the Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) is a list of all person names found…
VGKG: A Massive New 5.5 Million Global Protest Image Annotations Dataset From Worldwide News
Since its launch in December 2015, the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has cataloged more than half a billion worldwide…
Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) Reaches 1 Billion Articles
The Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) recently passed the one billion mark, cataloging more than 1.005 billion worldwide news articles 2015-present….
The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG): Nearly 150 Billion URLs And 891 Billion Datapoints
GDELT's Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) launched in March of last year, now stands just short of 150 billion URLs. With each…
Katie Hill Coverage: Victim or #MeToo Perpetrator?
Freshman Rep. Katie Hill was once lauded by the press as the next Nancy Pelosi and rapidly rose to become…
Business, Insular Stakeholder Relations And Conflict
This study by The Wharton School's Witold J. Henisz uses GDELT to explore the interplay of resource distribution and conflict….
Fox News: Dems Ponder Late Entry: White Knight Or Don Quixote?
Fox News' Chris Stirewalt summarizes FiveThirtyEight's weekly election roundup based on the 2020 Candidate Tracker in his daily FOX News…
San Francisco Chronicle: Andrew Yang Rips PG&E As 'Emblem Of What's Gone Wrong'
The San Francisco Chronicle's Joe Garofoli uses GDELT's 2020 Candidate Tracker to reference Andrew Yang's media coverage. Read The Full…
FiveThirtyEight: The Media Frenzy Around Biden Is Fading
FiveThirtyEight's weekly roundup of media coverage of the 2020 race. Read The Full Article.
Poisson-Randomized Gamma Dynamical Systems
A new paper by Aaron Schein of Columbia University's Data Science Institute, Scott W. Linderman of Stanford University's Department of…
New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?
The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…
Mapping Global Inequality Circa 2015
In 2015 we mapped global mentions of "inequality" across the world to trace how the topic was being internalized and…
Tracing The Entrance Of 'Throwing Shade' Into The Popular Lexicon
Like the phrase "clapping back," the popular term "throwing shade" is finding increasing adopting in media coverage, but when did…
Trump 'Lynching' Mentions Outpace Those of Smollett Case
President Trump provoked a firestorm of debate this week when he likened the impeachment hearings against him to a “lynching.”…
Mentions Of 'Lynching' Surge As Media Reacts To President's Comparison
As President Trump compared impeachment hearings to a "lynching" and Biden condemned the president's remarks before acknowledging using the same…
Expanded GKG Disease Database
The GKG's disease database has been expanded with a collection of new entries that will begin appearing over the next…
From Representation To Reasoning: Reconciling The Divergent Landscapes Of Visual And Textual Representation In Machine Learning
To reason about the world we must first be able to represent it. Machines, however, see the visual and textual…
Terascale Graph Construction And Analysis In BigQuery
One of the most amazing aspects of BigQuery is not only its incredible speed and scale, but its versatility. Most…
Analyzing And Managing A Planetary Scale Dataset
How exactly does one manage and analyze a dataset that last July totaled more than 3.2 trillion datapoints whose Global…
WashPost: The Most Loyal Trump Allies Are Republicans Who Watch Fox News
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explored the use of "secondhand" as a framing context for the whistleblower accusations across CNN,…
Visualizing The Web Entity Graph Produced By AI Watching A Week Of Television News
Earlier this year we used Google's Cloud Video, Cloud Vision, Cloud Speech to Text and Cloud Natural Language APIs to…
We're Talking More About Empathy
Worldwide online news mentions of "empathy" have trended upwards since July and have steadily increased day over day over the…
Worldwide Online News Coverage Of Liquidity Trending Up
Worldwide online news coverage mentioning "liquidity" has increased slightly over the last few months, though television news coverage remains relatively…
A Series Of Visualizations Of The New 3.8-Billion-Edge Image Entity Graph
With the release of the massive new 3.8-billion-edge Web Entities graph encoding the co-occurrences of entity annotations generated by Google's…